What Monero protects
Monero (XMR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, currently ranked 18th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Where most blockchains publish every transaction, Monero uses cryptography to keep financial activity confidential. That fungibility is its core feature — and the reason it draws particular regulatory attention.
Monero (XMR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that utilizes advanced cryptographic techniques to ensure secure and anonymous transactions. It aims to provide users with complete control over their financial privacy.
How the privacy is achieved
The technology aims for true fungibility: one unit of XMR is indistinguishable from another because history is hidden. The trade-off is ongoing tension with regulators and some venues.
Under the hood, XMR secures its ledger with Proof of Work, built on the RandomX algorithm.
Background & fundamentals
Monero first went live in 2014, giving it roughly 12 years of on-chain price history to draw on. Governance is structured as Decentralized, so no single company controls issuance or protocol changes. Monero lists a documented core team of 7, so the people behind the project are at least named on the record.
Its codebase is open-source, meaning the implementation can be audited rather than taken on trust. The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in XMR. CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "Working product".
In sector terms it is most often filed under Cryptocurrency, Cryptonight, and Proof Of Work.
Where Monero sits in the market
With XMR near $306.35, Monero carries a market capitalization of $5.65B. Around $140.70M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 2.49% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
Monero carries no fixed maximum supply; issuance follows a programmatic schedule rather than a hard cap. The token is roughly -62% under its record of $797.14 — a meaningful but not catastrophic drawdown. Measured from its all-time low of $100.23, XMR is up +206%.
What the price history shows
Recent moves read 24-hour -2.27%, 7-day -5.56%, 30-day -11.82%, 1-year -3.66%. Across roughly the last 366 days of daily candles, XMR endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 59% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Monero in the Moderate-volatility band — it shows the kind of price movement common in mid-cap crypto assets — meaningful but not unusual. Over the last 30 days the move totals -11.82%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a privacy coin like Monero
The honest checklist for XMR is short:
- Privacy guarantees — how strong and default-on the cryptographic privacy actually is.
- Listing risk — exchange availability, since privacy assets face delisting pressure in some regions.
- Network security — the consensus and developer activity keeping XMR resilient over time.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
